Yahoo! Conducting Search for New CEO — Co-Founder Jerry Yang to Step Down Following Appointment of New CEO — and Return to Former Role as Chief Yahoo! and Board Member — Yahoo! Inc. (Nasdaq:YHOO) today announced that its Board of Directors has initiated a search for a new Chief Executive Officer.

Yang Steps Down As Yahoo CEO, Search For Successor Begins — Expect Yahoo's share price to jump tomorrow - Jerry Yang will be stepping down as CEO of the company, a job that he took on an interim basis in June 2007. — Yang will return to his former role as Chief Yahoo, and will remain on the board of directors.

Want to track Adobe Flash? Now you can! — Image of Analytics Flash Visual Component in Flash CS3 — Today, at the Adobe MAX Conference in San Francisco, in a joint collaboration with our friends at Adobe and a few ace third party developers, we announced a simplified solution …

Why Apple Won't Allow Adobe Flash on iPhone — Don't hold your breath waiting for the iPhone to support Adobe's Flash software: Apple's terms-of-service agreement prohibits it. — Although Adobe says it is working on a version of its popular Flash player for the iPhone …

The SEC — I wish I could say more, but I will have to leave it to this, and let the judicial process do its job. — November 17, 2008 — RE: SEC Civil Action in the United States District — for the Northern District of Texas, Dallas Division — Mark Cuban today responded …

What does ‘SharePoint in the cloud’ really mean? — Microsoft began shipping, starting November 17, the final version of its Exchange Online and SharePoint Online Microsoft-hosted services. Are these products full versions of Microsoft's enterprise software running in “in the cloud”?

SGN's iFun Turns iPhone Into PC Game Controller — We've had a blast playing SGN's suite of Wii-like games over the last few months - iGolf, iBowl and iBaseball (basketball, tennis and boxing are coming soon). The apps are being downloaded like crazy on the App store, and no wonder …

P&G Digital Guru Not Sure Marketers Belong on Facebook — Advertisers Shouldn't ‘Hijack’ Conversations, but Applications Hold Promise — CINCINNATI (AdAge.com) — Social networks may never find the ad dollars they're hunting for because they don't really have a right to them, said Ted McConnell …

Microsoft files suit to defend Visual Studio users — In a new lawsuit, Microsoft asks a San Francisco court to declare invalid several patents assigned to an online transactions company in hopes of defending customers who have been sued by the patent holder, WebXchange.

Apple brings HDCP to a new aluminum MacBook near you — High Definition Content Protection (HDCP)—you can't live with it, but you practically can't buy an HD-capable device anymore without it. While HDCP is typically used in devices like Blu-ray players, HDTVs, HDMI-enabled notebooks …

OpenSocial, Facebook, Microsoft vie for developers — OpenSocial is growing up fast. What started out as Google's effort to create a common application programming interface for developing small applications that can tap into multiple social-networking services is becoming a full-fledged development platform.

Transmetsa Selling To Novafora for $255.6 Mln — Transmeta (TMTA) this afternoon announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to sell the company to privately held Novafora, a fabless chip company based in San Jose, for $255.6 million in cash. Transfora develops digital video processors.